{"id":2203,"date":"2011-05-05T13:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2011-05-05T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:30:49","slug":"new-kirby-fighting-american-softcover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/2203","title":{"rendered":"New Kirby &#8211; Fighting American softcover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s shipped through all channels yet, but I just got a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/085768115X\/ref=nosim\/jackkirbywebl-20\">FIGHTING AMERICAN<\/a>, the new softcover book from Titan reprinting the 1950s Simon&amp;Kirby classic, so comic shops and retailers like Amazon should have it within weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2204\" title=\"Fighting American 2011 #[nn]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2011\/05\/Fighting-American-2011-nn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2011\/05\/Fighting-American-2011-nn.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2011\/05\/Fighting-American-2011-nn-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 200-page book mostly duplicates the middle section of last year&#8217;s hardcover THE SIMON AND KIRBY SUPERHEROES, slightly smaller and softcover, so much more affordable, and with a short new introduction by Joe Simon.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a definite upgrade from the 1989 hardcover version of the book from Marvel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s shipped through all channels yet, but I just got a copy of FIGHTING AMERICAN, the new softcover book from Titan reprinting the 1950s Simon&amp;Kirby classic, so comic shops and retailers like Amazon should have it within weeks. The 200-page book mostly duplicates the middle section of last year&#8217;s hardcover THE SIMON [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-kirby"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}